Computer skills

In this section:

Advanced Excel for the Office

Cost: $160

Learn to use financial functions, pivot tables and charts, and custom format codes. Add data to multiple worksheets and consolidate data. Completing Microsoft Excel Level I before registering for this course is recommended.

Advanced Word for the Office

Cost: $160

Enhance your skills by working with advanced elements in Microsoft Word, including forms, table of contents, indexing, and tab stops. Find out how to create mail merges, track changes, navigate comments, and compare and combine documents.

Basic AutoCAD Part 2

Cost: $449Prerequisite: Basic AutoCAD

This class covers intermediate AutoCAD drafting principles and builds on the foundation laid in Basic AutoCAD. Learn industry methods to manage AutoCAD drawings and drawing setups, layers and linetypes, viewport and layout management, dimensioning tools, and blocks and attributes. Build symbol libraries and print singulars and sets. Upon completion, you can use AutoCAD’s more advanced editing tools to create and print drawings with accuracy and assurance.

Purchase the following textbooks for the first day of class from the UFV Bookstore:

Excel Basics for the Office

Cost: $160

Master Excel basics: learn to create, edit, and format worksheets. Work with auto fill, flash fill, formulas, graphics, spark lines, and charts. This course is designed for people with no previous Excel experience.

Keyboarding Assessments

As of January 1, 2017, Continuing Education no longer accepts third party keyboarding assessments.

Students applying to the following programs are required to submit a keyboarding assessment as part of their admissions criteria:

Required Typing Speeds

Continuing Education Program

Net words per minute required

Nursing Unit Clerk

30

Medical Office Assistant

30

Dental Office Receptionist

30

Legal Administrative Assistant

40

Paralegal

60

All Keyboarding Assessments will be held at the Clearbrook Centre in room L106 or the Chilliwack Education Park in room V116. Students will not be able to attend if they are late. Assessments are five (5) minutes long and errors are doubled when calculating net words per minute.

Need help brushing up on your keyboarding skills before the Assessment? Find help online here.

Keyboarding Online

Cost: $125

This 24-hour, online course will cover an introduction to letter keys, numbers, and symbols using a computer keyboard. Students are expected to login and practice at least twice a week to be successful. The software is designed to monitor speed, accuracy, and confidence and will also cover tips for proper keyboard positioning.

MS Excel Level II

Cost: $325Prerequisite: Excel Level I

Learn how to use intermediate MS Excel tools such as hyperlinks, PMT function, and additional formatting to create workbooks, including templates and multiple worksheets. This course will help you further develop your skills in chart creation.

This course is not a graduation requirement for the Bookkeeping for Small Business certificate.

MS Office Fast Track

Cost: $430 - $440

Tour the whole Microsoft Office suite and get introduced to applications such as Access (database), Excel (spreadsheet), Word (word processing), PowerPoint (presentation), and Outlook (email). Get hands-on experience using these tools to create compelling documents and presentations.

Revit Architecture

This course covers the basics of Autodesk Revit in an architectural environment. Learn to plan and design a building from concept through construction documentation. Explore the tools and concepts needed to work with fully parametric building modeling software. Purchase the following textbooks for the first day of class from the UFV Bookstore:

Word Basics for the Office

Cost: $160

This course is a quick way to learn basic Microsoft Word skills. Learn to create, edit, and format themes, as well as style documents. You will also work with headers and footers, bullets, drop caps, graphics, and columns.

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